Don't Work for Free!

In our travels across the state, we've discovered something. Among many community employment providers, "billing" is a seven-letter word. If supported employment invoicing were depicted in a Sunday comic, it would look something like: #$$!@*!

It seems the new Indiana Employment Services Model has taken some getting used to in your accounting departments. To put it mildly. This post is all about getting paid for the services your hard-working employment specialists render to your job seekers with disabilities.

In keeping with that theme, today's resource is a new fact sheet designed to answer a few of your more pressing billing questions:

• What's considered allowable for on-job-site and off-job-site time spent with a client?
• Can we invoice VR for hours an ES spent setting up a Discovery service--even if the client wasn't present at the time?
• Our specialists are in the car a lot. When can we bill for mileage or time?

Download Get Paid for What You Do! A Billing Fact Sheet for the Employment Services Model.

Next month, we'll begin facilitating several new Check and Connect webinars. Heads up, community employment provider program managers and CEOs: This series is for you! Here's the Check and Connect flyer in case you missed it in your inbox.  Note that the second webinar in the series, on November 3, is, indeed, "Don't Work for Free!" In it, we'll go into depth about all-things billing. Save the date!

And in the meantime, take your accounting department staff out to lunch!